English sparkling wine really does seem to have a head of steam (carbon dioxide?) behind it at the moment, with upbeat reports on the rise of its popularity emerging on all sides. You may have...

To coincide with British Food Fortnight, the Hart brothers' Soho restaurant Quo Vadis will be hosting an English wine tasting next Wednesday 21 September from 7 to 9.30 pm . The...

Susanna Forbes, founder of www.DrinkBritain.com , gives us her introduction to wine tourism in the UK, with her pick of some of the best places to visit. (Just in passing – both Jancis...

22 Jul - See here for yet more detail. 16 Jul - See here for what happened on the programme. Tonight in the UK sees a new series of the TV investment programme Dragons’...

It is awards season in the UK wine trade. Last week saw three different competition results announced, all focusing on English and Welsh wines, and with a particular emphasis on the fortunes of...

For reviews of nearly 70 current English wines, see  tasting notes As May Day is celebrated and England is looking its most delightful, awash with mayblossom, it is also awash with its...

Here are the nearly 70 tasting notes I took at this year's  English Wine Producers tasting   on St George's Day a week  ago in the distinctly un-English setting of...

Last Friday the English Wine Producers held their annual St George's Day tasting. The turnout was impressive and even included Frenchwoman Isabelle Bachelet, who writes for La Revue du Vin de...

Susanna Forbes is currently studying at Plumpton College and is in the process of launching www.drinkbritain.com highlighting the best producers of drinks in the UK of interest to...

Before the recent AGM of the Royal Household Wine Committee at Buckingham Palace, the penultimate before my two three-year terms as a member are up, we tasted dozens of wines, blind as usual. One...

‘It would be endless to mention how many good judges of wine were deceived by my wine, and thought it superior to the best champagne they ever drank.’ So says the Honourable –...

English fizz has been knocked off the top of the rostrum in this year's English and Welsh wine competition. For the first time since 1999 a still white wine –  Three Choirs Estate...

English Wine Week starts tomorrow, Saturday 24 May. English wine producers are organising various events to promote their wines, with far more vineyards than usual open to the public. (The photo...

The 35 sparkling wines below were all tasted blind in January of this year as part of a Master of Wine dissertation. I don’t know what the thrust of the dissertation is but the advantage...

In the company of the head sommeliers from two of Gordon Ramsay’s London restaurants, La Noisette and Maze, I blind tasted four sets of wines – sparkling, rosé, white and red...